Library Director
Dr. Elisha Chiware has served as Library Director at Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa for the last twelve years. Prior to that, he served as Lecturer at the University of Namibia, University Librarian at the Chinhoyi University of Technology, Senior Systems Librarian at Africa University, and has held roles at the Universities of Zimbabwe and Botswana. He has also served on the boards of the International Association of University Libraries (IATUL) as Secretary, the South African Library and Information Consortium (SANLIC), the Committee of Higher Education Libraries South Africa (CHELSA), and has chaired the Research Data Management and Open Science research group for the Western Cape Tier II Data Intensive project in Astronomy and Bioinformatics. Dr. Chiware completed a master’s degree in Library Science (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) and a PhD in Information Science (University of Pretoria).